Cloudflare Queues
Ranked 12 of 19 message brokers by recommenders
People recommend it for queues that handle retries and tracking of individual jobs, and for driving write costs down. Critics say its happy-path design lacks defensive handling.
People recommend it for queues that handle retries and tracking of individual jobs, and for driving write costs down. Critics say its happy-path design lacks defensive handling.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Not very defensive against problems
“I think this is a clever happy path solution, but it isn't very defensive against problems”
Comment from 31 Oct 2026 in “Double Buffering with Cloudflare Queues”
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| Amazon SQS | 18 | 14 | 56% | 8 | — | — |
| Redpanda | 17 | 4 | 81% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Cloudflare QueuesThis page | 7 | 1 | 88% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I think this is a clever happy path solution, but it isn't very defensive against problems”
“driving Cloudflare write costs to zero”
“you can't run KV or Queues”
“Queues are great when you have a unit of work that needs to be completed, retried, and tracked individually.”
“Workers, D1, R2, queues, containers, KV”
“Queues are fantastic for my purpose”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.